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Either/Or, Neither/Nor...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Well, I'm not going to talk about grammar, for once. I'm going to talk about this concept of either-one-but-not-both.

I'm a week and a few days into my healthy eating/diet plan [discussed here].

I am also one-third of the way to my goal. [under this diet plan, the most accelerated weight loss comes in the first one or two 4-day segments, so this is normal. weight loss will slow down after this, so says "Dr Ian," as he calls himself.] But yippee nonetheless!

However, I must confess something to you all. And I sure hope this doesn't keep me from cutting bangs.

Thinking back upon my life and subsequent weight fluctuations, I notice a pattern:

At my "skinniest," I did a crummy job of exercising consistently/all-out/full-heartedly--if at all--but ate healthfully like a champ.

At my "chubbier" stages, I was most likely training for a half-marathon or something in the background, meanwhile baking tons of cookies or eating $5 Hot-n-Readys w/Jonny for dinner.

I can never do both well at the same time.

What is with this? Dr. Ian prescribes a daily amount of exercise you are supposed to do on each day of this 28-day plan. And of course he does. Any ding-dong knows that diet + exercise = weight loss. Both of them. Together. Like peas in a pod. And I have probably done 3 of the days he's recommended so far, out of 10. Why why why why?

It's like I feel exempt from exercising hard when I'm eating like Jillian Michaels. And when I'm exercising like Jillian Michaels, I want to eat like Paula Deen.

[oh, and because I now can't post without some sort of photo or icon, I'll just tell you that I bit the bullet and got on twitter. Had to get on it for work, so @lesliejerkins was subsequently born. "follow me" if you'd like. I'm lame, though, I must warn you. Oh, and if you have a name, let me know what it is so I can "follow" you too. And maybe someday quit putting all the "twitter" terms in quotation marks. Sheesh.]

2 comments:

And good point in your post--this is why I like the LoseIt! app on iPhone. If I know I'm eating pizza for dinner and piling on the calories, I can think ahead for some creative ways to stay below my calorie total for the day. (Marching in place while watching tv, anyone?) Even though I like running/I am a runner, I run to eat. I think it's ok to sneak a treat when you've worked it off for the day. (As long as you're not "eating like Paula Deen" for every meal.)